Saribus

{{Short description|Genus of palms}}

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| authority = Blume{{Cite web |title=Saribus |url=https://www.ipni.org/n/31498-1 |website=International Plant Names Index |publisher=The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries and Australian National Botanic Gardens |access-date=10 October 2020}}

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• Pritchardiopsis Becc.

| synonyms_ref = {{cite web |url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=185384 |title=Saribus |last=Govaerts |first=Rafaël H. A. |author-link=Rafaël Govaerts |date=2019 |website=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=10 October 2020}}

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Saribus is a genus of palms (family Arecaceae), native to Southeast Asia, Papuasia and Pacific Islands. They are fan palms, the leaves with an armed petiole terminating in a rounded, costapalmate fan of numerous leaflets.{{cite journal |last1=Bacon |first1=Christine D. |last2=Baker |first2=William J. |date=14 September 2011 |title=Saribus resurrected |url=https://www.province-sud.nc/pandoreweb/pandore/document/Document/ff80818167be546e0167be88e52d0c36/fichier?_responseMode=binary |journal=Palms |volume=55 |issue=3 |pages=109–116 |access-date=10 October 2020}}

Livistona is closely related to the genus Saribus, and for the past century and half Saribus was included in Livistona. Recent studies, however, have advocated separating the two groups. The generic epithet Saribus comes from a local name in one of the Maluku languages, sariboe, as recorded by the Dutch.{{cite book |last=Whitmore |first=T.C. |date=1979 |title=Palms of Malaya |others=2nd impression |edition=2 |location=Petaling Jaya |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=72, 73 |isbn=0-19-580368X}}

Anáhaw (Saribus rotundifolius) is the unofficial national leaf of the Philippines.{{Cite web|date=2016-03-14|title=Philippine National Symbols or Mga Pambansang Sagisag Ng Pilipinas|url=http://www.philippinecountry.com/philippine_national_symbols.html|access-date=2021-05-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314053231/http://www.philippinecountry.com/philippine_national_symbols.html|archive-date=2016-03-14}}